Airy Fairy

Art and craft shop with a cafe offering coffee, tea, soup, savory lunches, freshly made bread, and cake. Organic, fairtrade, and vegetarian. Will accommodate wheat free and lactose intolerant diets. Has garden for seating and small animal sanctuary for rabbits and guinea pigs. Since 1999. Open Mon-Sat 11:00am-5:00pm.

Airy Fairy is the kind of mildly ironic and humorous name an alternative, craft shop would call themselves. Hippy Dippy would be better for this place. The cafe area is so small, and the volume of crystals, wind-chimes and crafty bits so extensive, that it's a little cluttered and untidy for my taste... and suggests compromised hygiene. The food was fair, but the cafe section of the shoppe seems like an afterthought, and the oppression of hippy clutter meant I couldn't wait to finish my meal and leave.

too small.small menu, expensive food, poor range of vegan scran.weird new age vibe,too hippy dippy for my liking.
depends who`s on duty, it can be very uncomfortable there if you`re not ok yarr hippy enough
Updated from previous review on Thursday November 04, 2010
i HAVE BEEN ONCE OR TWICE LATELY AND there was a lousy episode, with an employee loudly telling her boyfriend by phone "i [edit by staff]"..abysmal, caught out, and jmust a totally dire response to a kitten in the garden.
Cup of tea with soya milk is always available, the food is not cheap nor, in the main, vegan.

Nice cosy little place on the busy London Road coming out of Sheffield at the south end near Bramall Lane football ground. You walk into a shop first that sells handmade cards, crafts and trinkets (insence, scarves, ornaments, jewelry, candles, lamps etc). The cafe is at the rear and is very small with around 10 seats and a tiny kitchen area. It's a bit like what mother hubbard's kitchen could look like but in a nice way. There is a hot stove at one end keeping things warm in winter and boiling a kettle of water. The range of food is OK (paninis, sandwiches, calzones, toasted sandwiches, soups and dips). The coffee is good and there is a nice friendly local atmosphere in the place. Great for a snack and hot drink and maybe a little mooch around the shop. There are a nice selection of hand made cards at decent prices. If you're in Sheffield and make a point of going to vegetarian places then it's worth a crack.